DELTA


Meaning of DELTA in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

hepatitis

Concurrently hepatitis delta virus superinfection did not appear to modulate the synthesis and expression of pre-S peptides in the liver.

river

A main feeder lava tunnel often branches towards the terminus of a flow rather like the distributaries of a river delta .

Sediment from the tailings has increased the area of the river delta from 65 to 900 hectares.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

the Mississippi delta

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

From these we get our word alphabet, delta , and gamma which gives us gamma rays.

He too migrated to Cairo to find a job, in his case from a village in the Nile delta .

Left: Typical of the rigid frame using glass fibre tubing on the earlier steerable deltas is seen on this example.

They are called delta frames and, typically, may consist of no more than 5 kilobytes of data.

They change the angle of attack from acute within the central delta , to near neutral over the outer triangular sail panel.

This allows him to supervise all the family's vast landholdings in the delta .

Tom Pratt's stack of four deltas lofts his Pentax unit.

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